SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 74 65 52
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.68% 9.30% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.57% 34.57% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 51 43
10th Percentile £394 £350 £345
25th Percentile £413 £384 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £576 £478 £638
90th Percentile £600 £588 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £438 £538
% change year-on-year +14.29% -18.60% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.33 - -
Median hourly rate £52.67 - -
75th Percentile £54.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £52.67 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -44.19%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 343 188 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.32% 26.90% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 110 132
10th Percentile £375 £320 £338
25th Percentile £420 £363 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £626 £601 £661
South West median daily rate £510 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +7.37% -11.63% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 31 88
10th Percentile £53.53 - £65.00
25th Percentile - £65.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.38 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.10
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.41%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.70%) Apache
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (10.81%) NEC Housing
2 4 (5.41%) Maximo
3 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.38%) Azure
2 14 (18.92%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (12.16%) AWS
5 8 (10.81%) Snowflake
6 7 (9.46%) OCI
7 6 (8.11%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Functions
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Storage
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (5.41%) GCP
9 4 (5.41%) Serverless
10 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.05%) GitHub
11 2 (2.70%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (2.70%) IaaS
11 2 (2.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) DNS
2 4 (5.41%) WAN
3 3 (4.05%) Firewall
4 2 (2.70%) 3GPP
4 2 (2.70%) 4G
4 2 (2.70%) 5G
4 2 (2.70%) 5G NR
4 2 (2.70%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.70%) LTE
4 2 (2.70%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (2.70%) MPLS
4 2 (2.70%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.70%) VoLTE
4 2 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.92%) Power BI
2 6 (8.11%) Data Lake
2 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.76%) RDBMS
3 5 (6.76%) Tableau
4 4 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.41%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.05%) Neo4j
6 2 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.70%) Metadata
6 2 (2.70%) Power Query
6 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.70%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.35%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.35%) EDRMS
7 1 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Git
2 5 (6.76%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.76%) JIRA
3 4 (5.41%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.35%) GitLab
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Finance
5 3 (4.05%) Local Government
5 3 (4.05%) Marketing
6 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Developer
2 14 (18.92%) Data Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Senior
4 9 (12.16%) Oracle Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Analyst
6 6 (8.11%) Applications Support
6 6 (8.11%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Architect
7 5 (6.76%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Senior Applications Support
7 5 (6.76%) Support Officer
8 4 (5.41%) Integration Manager
8 4 (5.41%) SQL Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Technical Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Technical Specialist
10 2 (2.70%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (9.46%) REST
2 5 (6.76%) JSON
2 5 (6.76%) SOAP
3 4 (5.41%) JDBC
3 4 (5.41%) Middleware
3 4 (5.41%) XML
4 3 (4.05%) PySpark
4 3 (4.05%) RESTful
5 2 (2.70%) .NET
5 2 (2.70%) Kafka
5 2 (2.70%) React
5 2 (2.70%) Web Services
6 1 (1.35%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.35%) HTML
6 1 (1.35%) OAuth
6 1 (1.35%) OpenID
6 1 (1.35%) Pandas
6 1 (1.35%) Spring
6 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.78%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (29.73%) Analytics
3 16 (21.62%) Decision-Making
3 16 (21.62%) DevOps
4 15 (20.27%) Data Engineering
5 14 (18.92%) Data Modelling
6 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.86%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (13.51%) Agile
9 9 (12.16%) CI/CD
10 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.46%) Data Governance
11 7 (9.46%) Data Security
11 7 (9.46%) Information Security
11 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
12 6 (8.11%) Cost Optimisation
12 6 (8.11%) Data Science
12 6 (8.11%) ETL
12 6 (8.11%) RBAC
12 6 (8.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.38%) Python
2 13 (17.57%) PL/SQL
3 5 (6.76%) Java
4 3 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.05%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.70%) C
5 2 (2.70%) C#
5 2 (2.70%) R
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Degree
4 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (31.08%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) PMO
3 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.41%) Docker
1 4 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.70%) Ansible
3 1 (1.35%) CASB
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (22.97%) Oracle
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.16%) Databricks
4 8 (10.81%) NEC
5 4 (5.41%) webMethods
6 3 (4.05%) Google
6 3 (4.05%) IBM
6 3 (4.05%) SAP
7 2 (2.70%) Facebook
7 2 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.35%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.35%) Braze